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- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 4 hours ago:
it talks like a human so it must be smart like a human.
Yikes. Have those people… talked to other people before?
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 4 hours ago:
I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.
This baffles me. How can anyone see AI function in the wild and not conclude 1) it has no conscience, 2) it’s free to do whatever it’s empowered to do if it wants and 3) at some level its behavior is pseudorandom and/or probabilistic? We’re figuratively rolling dice with this stuff.
- Comment on Choose Wisely 1 day ago:
I disagree. Under those circumstances, one is skydiving for longer than average. Sounds like a pro move to me.
- Comment on Antz in my Pantz 1 day ago:
Like petroleum. Well, stuff made from it anyway.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 1 day ago:
PSA: Home use? That’s probably okay. Work use? If you’re in-office, this is a ticking time-bomb that can get you fired, one way or another. Use the company 1password or whatever you have access to, please. Thank you.
- Comment on It’s the little things 5 days ago:
I’m not a geologist, but I’m imagine that the deep ocean would be a colossal underwater glacier, with intermixed sedimentary layers. Kind of like what we have with methane hydrate deposits, only much, much deeper. The super-deep ocean simply wouldn’t exist, and we might not even know about the Mariana Trench, or a lot of other sea floor features. Also, it’s possible a different proportion of the world’s water would be frozen in this way.
With ice as a part of the sea floor, it would also interact with subduction zones at continental edges. That might push a LOT more superheated water into volcanoes, faults, and everywhere else water could go. That would probably make for a lot more geysers in such areas, and volcanic eruptions would be far more energetic.
The trajectory of human history and technology would also be changed. There might have been fewer ice bridges between continents during the last ice age. Ice-skating wouldn’t become a thing. Harvesting ice in the winter would require bodies of water to freeze solid first, making it impractical except in shallow areas.
I’m also going to wager that glaciers would behave differently too. I don’t know enough about their dynamics, but I wonder if having meltwater on the bottom helps lubricate their movements somewhat. Kind of like a lava flow, only slower. Inverting that relationship might make glaciers far less mobile.
- Comment on In Act of 'Brutal Sadism,' Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death 6 days ago:
Colonialism.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
This is why I’m mostly okay with hunting deer, here in the US. We displaced their predators so it’s on us to make up the balance. I say “mostly” since, like others are saying in this thread about taking habitat away from kangaroos, the better answer is to give them an actual functional ecosystem to live in.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 1 week ago:
The trick is to find the right message and tone for the moment. I also think change like this is necessarily incremental. It’s possible that with enough doom-and-gloom around a pending “market correcting event”, that helping everyone reduce grocery bills by eating vegetarian a few nights a week, would be the right message.
- Comment on AI Job Fears Hit Peak Hype While Reality Lags Behind 1 week ago:
I’m going to say that every layoff has a cover story. The goal, reduce the workforce make/save money, is really the only justification needed. Everything else is PR, and an attempt to stay out of legal hot water.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 week ago:
That’s always worth considering. A phone app doesn’t take a big operating budget to launch and maintain. Especially for state-actors.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 1 week ago:
That’s easy. It’s more dull here, and there’s less lock-in.
No, really. Social media without the dopamine-pump-style algorithm behind it is far less stimulating. Meanwhile, the Federation model itself allows us to abandon nodes that are co-opted by bad actors. So there’s always somewhere else to go with all your favorite stuff when things go sour.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 1 week ago:
The best take on Black Flag I ever read was something like: “It’s a great game, except for all the Assassin’s Creed parts.”
- Comment on Just.....why? 1 week ago:
Whoa, you are not kidding. The toilet is powered (not so unusual for bidet toilets), but it looks like there’s no mechanical override. Just a ‘remote’ control panel with a flush button (among many other features). That I’m sure is hygienic.
The video is about how to bluetooth pair the remote to the toilet. There are so many points of possible failure here, I can’t even.
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 3 weeks ago:
If only there was a better way…
- Comment on Could I get a photo of the bag on you? 3 weeks ago:
My first thought as well!
- Comment on Socialism is the actual teaching of Jesus 4 weeks ago:
The Prosperity Gospel folks go a step further and equate wealth and health with the will of god. That being well-off is the direct result of being in god’s good graces. It side-steps observations of financial inequality in the face of moral equality, by hand-waving exceptional wealth as deserved by truly rare and exceptional people. And that conveniently plays off of confusing causation for correlation, so we arrive at “money = godly.”
For the record: I hate that this has a name and it’s a real thing.
- Comment on spicy one 4 weeks ago:
I was gonna say. With a crater that large, we all lose.
- Comment on The future is amazing 4 weeks ago:
“AI e-girl” you say? I know a contractor that might have what you’re looking for.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 4 weeks ago:
Hot take: Debris was on track for something like that.
It had “new strange” style storytelling with a very grounded Sci-Fi basis, interesting episiodes, and a conspiracy arc to tie it all together. There were also hints at things well beyond the scientific, turning typical X-Files formula inside out: “it’s all explainable phenomena and everyone knows it, but some things take time to understand.” The major flaw here were wooden performances and un-charismatic characters that just fail to pull you in.
That said, there’s no reason to wait for an X-Files reboot. SCP has more than enough lore to get the ball moving, and there’s gotta be a webisode series or small-studio production team out there just waiting for eyeballs and donations.
- Comment on A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit 4 weeks ago:
Yup. They’re called “Whole Paycheck” for a reason.
- Comment on Midweek feels 4 weeks ago:
This moment calls for more beans. Image
- Comment on Your household smart products must respect your privacy – including your air fryer 4 weeks ago:
I know everyone points out the problems with Nest, Ring, and various talking/listening/spying agents. For me, one of the worst offenders was a garage door motor that came with WiFi capability. Damn thing has the ability to just open up a door on my house on command. There’s no way am I putting that online.
- Comment on So many invites... 4 weeks ago:
Real talk: Is this how to elope guilt free? Just cowardly let everyone decline?
I can easily see someone giving overbearing family the slip this way. Just price everything out of reach and go on vacation.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 4 weeks ago:
Workers risk a few things, depending on the job:
- Health
- Time
- Opportunity (could be working someplace else that’s better)
These have a lot of dimension to them, including how one quantifies what “pay” actually is/for, what legal restrictions there are around taking the job (e.g. non-compete, non-arbitration), work/life balance, and so on.
Risk comes into play where the employee takes a bet that the job won’t destroy their health, work only as much as is absolutely necessary, and have taken a position at the optimal balance of responsibility, personal growth, retirement prospects, and income. It’s a risk since there are substantial barriers to changing to a new job, so you can wind up “stuck” in a bad position, but can’t know until after you start.
- Comment on Vomiting Emoji 5 weeks ago:
Finally, we have “thanks, I hate it” as an emoji.
- Comment on Good job 5 weeks ago:
What we want: OS updates that make the system more performant, more accessible, easier to use, smarter at using battery power, and more secure.
Apple: Let’s make everything an unreadable mess and tax the GPU to shit just for fucking UI elements, because we’re out of ideas.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 1 month ago:
It was uncanny and disturbing back then. It’s uncanny, disturbing, and hilarious now.
- Comment on Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift? 1 month ago:
… a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, lisa needs braces, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, dental plan, a new set of knives, a new set of knives, a new set of knives…
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 1 month ago:
Don’t forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have “the box” in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.
Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.
